Being a mother is not an easy thing.

I should know

.

I was little once

...
 
...and when I was little, everything even remotely child-related fell to the mothers' lot. It may therefore be forgiven that a young mother (like mine), who was herself born into a decidedly

loveless

family, didn't know better, but to follow in the footsteps of those, who sadly believed that authoritarian books like

had actual educational value.

Enter: "

Der Struwwelpeter

" (Engl.:

Shockheaded Peter

) from the mid 19

century.

I absolutely

hated

this book as a child. I was utterly disgusted by it. And the fact that it was given to me by my mother (the person, who brought me into this world), clearly meant one thing:

If you do not

behave

and always do

exactly

what your parents (or adults in general) demand, then you will be considered

worthless

, and nobody will care, when you receive the punishment you so obviously deserve ... - which is:

mutilation

,

torture

& eventually

DEATH

.

 
In retrospect, it is probably not much of a surprise that a

sensitive

(and inquisitive) fairychild like myself eventually turned into this:

Any questions?!